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Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-09-21T00:00:00 | 2010 | Pharmacovigilance of medicinal products (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004) - Pharmacovigilance (amendment of Directive 2001/83/EC) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The statistics show that as many as half of patients do not take medicines in accordance with medical advice, and around three quarters of patients would like to have easy access to reliable information on the action of medicines and possible side effects. The proposal for supervision of the safety of medicines streng... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the statements by the Council and the Commission: Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010). | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the European Council meeting of 16 September was convened primarily in order to focus on the Union’s external relations. We also had a short scheduled discussion during lunch about the task force on economic governance, and an unscheduled discussion about the Roma situation. Allow me to address each of th... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Parliament has always been very clear that one of the main goals of the Lisbon Treaty is to make the EU stronger on the international stage, and the Commission shares this goal to the full. Maximising the EU’s voice is good for Europe and, I believe, it is also good for the world. It allows us to promote ... | null |
Joseph Daul | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Buzek, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council has discussed the Union’s relations with its global partners and economic governance. Above all, however, public opinion has been interested in the debate on the Roma. I want to repeat the position of my group on this point. First, each M... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, I listened carefully to your speech, a summary of which could be ‘everything is fine’. There are no problems in the Council. I admit that you were there and I was not. You witnessed the discussion at close hand and I did not. Nevertheless, I had a somewhat different perception of the Europ... | null |
Krisztina Morvai | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my question to Mr Schulz is very simple: how can the ideas and views of citizens in our Member States at domestic level be completely neglected? In his view, how is it in line with the fundamental ideas of democracy that decisions at EU level, typically by non-elected individuals, can prevail over the wil... | null |
Martin Schulz | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every state based on the rule of law is obliged to ensure that the law falling within its sphere of competence is enforced. I therefore agree one hundred percent with people who say: when there are problems in individual cases with individual citizens – regardless of which country t... | null |
Guy Verhofstadt | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I wish to thank President Van Rompuy for the report on this important Council. I want to start with the last part of his intervention, on the Roma issue. I would say very clearly and personally to my colleague in the PPE Group, Mr Daul, that the Commission has acted in the right way on the R... | null |
Rebecca Harms | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, I am now hearing the report on the last summit – which we should not call a summit because it was a Council meeting – for the third time. Even the public report makes me think that you and we live in different galaxies. What I expect when Heads of State of the European Union gather in Brus... | null |
Timothy Kirkhope | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I want to make a couple of quick points before I go to my main specific point. Firstly, I should like to congratulate the Council on its concentration on improving economic governance in Europe. Secondly, on the Roma, I want to make it clear that we have been pressing very hard to get a very clear legal s... | null |
Patrick Le Hyaric | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the only aspect of the European Council that will have been highlighted by the mass media is the sinister polemic of the French President against the Commission to defend a hunt organised in France against part of the European population, the Roma. In the name of universal values, t... | null |
Niki Tzavela | MEP | ID | en | el | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, as regards the question of the Roma, I do not think that the problem lies in the deportation of the Roma from France. It lies in the inhumane conditions under which the Roma live in most countries in Europe. Instead, therefore, of being judgmental at this point, we should – given that the Roma are an eth... | null |
Frank Vanhecke | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The actual official agenda of last week’s European summit was obviously completely overshadowed by that textbook example of political correctness gone mad, the particularly foolish outburst made by Commissioner Viviane Reding against the French policy on the Roma. It was high time that the European Commission was put ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President of the European Council, I imagine you would like to say a few words. | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like very briefly to say a few words in response. There are always different ways of presenting things. One can let oneself be guided by perceptions, or one can let oneself be guided by achievements and facts. I am the type of person who prefers sticking to achievements, rea... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, just a quick reaction to the statements by the political leaders. First, the issue of the Roma: here again I would like to assure this Parliament that the Commission will pursue its work according to two strands. The first is very thorough, precise legal analyses of the situation and the second is support... | null |
Ivo Belet | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, you have quite correctly said that the European citizen is waiting for results and a future. The first precondition for that to become a reality is to speak with one voice, certainly in light of the forthcoming summits with Asia and President Obama over the coming weeks. When it comes to s... | null |
Véronique De Keyser | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my thanks to the Presidents. It is true that we expected a Council on economic governance, but what we actually got was the Roma issue. We have already spoken at length about the incident concerning Mrs Reding, but I would nevertheless like to add something. We support her statements, both in form and in... | null |
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this, of course, was a European Council meeting that focused, among other things, on foreign policy. At almost the same time, in the United Nations General Assembly, China and numerous developing countries voted against granting special status to you, Mr Van Rompuy, and also to Baroness Ashton. This ough... | null |
Jill Evans | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this is a crucial time, at which the European Union needs to show its leadership globally, particularly on climate change and fighting poverty, but also in terms of governance, internally. This issue goes wider than to just the Member States. We must improve multilevel governance to address the governance... | null |
Derk Jan Eppink | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to ask Mr Verhofstadt to stay in the Chamber. The Roma are a deep-seated social problem in Europe, and I would warn against too much hypocrisy. We heard the sweeping statements of Mr Verhofstadt at the previous plenary session. He accused Mr Sarkozy of things that he did himself. In 1999, Mr ... | null |
Mario Borghezio | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would also award the prize for hypocrisy to Mrs Reding, who forgot to describe – at least according to the texts – the situation of the Roma in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where the problem of expelling Roma does not exist simply because the setting up of Roma camps is not allo... | null |
Daniël van der Stoep | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, a fortnight ago, this House adopted a ridiculous resolution in this place, one which accused France of all sorts of things and which found it guilty without a trial. It was a curious situation where the European Parliament put itself in the place of judge and jury. Then came Commissioner Reding making co... | null |
Werner Langen | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, I admire the optimism with which you are presenting your interim report on the task force. We will, of course, see later what tangible results remain. However, as regards the assessment of the economic situation, you somewhat prematurely said – exactly like Mr Barroso – that the economy ha... | null |
Stephen Hughes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, on economic governance, my group supports efforts to achieve stronger European economic coordination, but we have serious doubts about the direction being followed by the Commission and Council. In essence, they want to strengthen an imbalanced policy approach which has failed us now for over a decade. Th... | null |
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Hughes, we have worked together before and I have high regard for your work. However, in your analysis of the economic crisis and of the measures that are now to be taken, you are seriously wide of the mark, just like the majority of your group. Would you not agree that it was excessive debt – in othe... | null |
Stephen Hughes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is very difficult to distil complex arguments down to one minute, but I did devote one sentence to saying sound public finances are very important. We agree absolutely with that, but it is the timing and method of approach that you adopt which is also crucial. If you do it far too quickly, as is being ... | null |
Mario Mauro | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have two sincere questions to put to the President of the European Council and to the Vice-President of the Commission. The first regards the rationale behind the development of the External Action Service: I was particularly struck by the fact that, among the appointments made by... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Presidents, on the Roma affair, I believe it may be useful, at this stage in our debate, to repeat the motto of the European Union: unity in diversity. This motto – unity in diversity – must also apply to the Roma. Let us respect the diversity of the Roma and then let us implement the strategy that we ha... | null |
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, turning back to foreign policy – which was supposed to be the main topic of the summit – we need a foreign policy which is not just reactive, but which is forward-looking, holistic, anticipative and wants to achieve long-term goals. I am afraid that the present debate on the EAS will bring exaggerated exp... | null |
David-Maria Sassoli | MEP | S&D | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last week we witnessed a disconcerting spectacle in the new body over which you preside: Mr Sarkozy and Mr Berlusconi called into question the treaties signed by their countries. We realised that the French President and Italian Prime Minister, in serious difficulty in their countri... | null |
Francisco José Millán Mon | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am really delighted that the European Council has discussed the Union’s external action. We are in a new world, which is multipolar from an economic point of view and increasingly from a political point of view, with a smaller number of significant players. Moreover, the challenges that we face are glo... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That was slightly too fast, and the interpreters could not interpret precisely. Please do not speak so fast. | null |
Zita Gurmai | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the EU has half a billion inhabitants, and this number of people is not negligible in world politics. The USA has only 296 million people. The EU has all the potential to be a great power, as we have been for years in the economic and cultural field. Yet in the political field, we have not yet lived up to... | null |
Lívia Járóka | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to warmly welcome the statement by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, about launching the European Roma strategy during the upcoming Hungarian Presidency. This Parliament has been the propelling force behind developing a common European programme for Roma inclusion and, after the ann... | null |
Hannes Swoboda | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to say a few words to the Commission. As someone who, on behalf of the group, heavily criticised the Commission, Mr Barroso and Mrs Reding for their weak position on the Roma issue last time, I would like to say that I am grateful for the clear position that has since been foun... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The Council mainly dealt with the EU’s external relations. However, let us not forget that the current problem facing Europe’s citizens is the economic situation. I am pleased that an agreement has been reached on a European Semester, but unless the European Commission is provided with an implementation mechanism whic... | null |
Corien Wortmann-Kool | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, President Van Rompuy, you are facing the major challenge of having to elevate the European Council above the jungle of national interests, above the jungle of the interests of the large Member States, and to ensure that our common interest prevails in the Council. That is the only thing that can help us ... | null |
Jean-Paul Gauzès | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Van Rompuy, first of all, I would like to say how happy I am to see that, on the question of the Roma, the positions for resolving the problems of poverty faced by these populations are balanced, reasonable and forward-looking. I would like to say to you, Mr Van Rompuy, that I appreciated your way of presenting the... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to ask President Van Rompuy, whose consistent and systematic work I hold in very high regard, to convince Member States with Roma populations to develop medium-term government programmes on the Roma issue everywhere. I dare to say this because it was I, as undersecretary of state, who developed the first ... | null |
Charles Goerens | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, we know how concerned you are to give an incarnation to the unity of Europe, as much within it as outside it. In my opinion, however, the way in which the Member States are represented at the G20 creates, within the 27, two categories of European states: those that have the status of membe... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Colleagues, I would ask you not to raise blue cards. Please raise the white card if you want to take part in the catch-the-eye procedure. I am very sorry, the blue card is something different. All of you are on the list, but there are 25 names on that list, so it will not be possible to take contributions from all of y... | null |
Catherine Grèze | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, I am grateful to you for repeating that human dignity is a core value of the European Union. However, given the political storm of last week and the xenophobic tone of the French Government, the promises of a future discussion are not up to our expectations. Mr Van Rompuy, do not waste the... | null |
Mirosław Piotrowski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The main item on the agenda of the last European Council meeting was an attempt to give new impetus to the Union’s external relations based on the Treaty of Lisbon. Not for the first time, the Council meeting was dominated by a matter which, officially, had not been anticipated. This time it was about the removal of R... | null |
Paulo Rangel | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I would like to congratulate President Van Rompuy on the results of this Council meeting and, in particular, on his systematic efforts to introduce real economic governance for the European Union. The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and its Portuguese Members full... | null |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | MEP | S&D | en | sk | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to touch on two topics, the first one only briefly as we examined it here in Parliament two weeks ago, in relation to a solution to the Roma problem. It is paradoxical that even today, this topic is addressed by some Members who have never set foot in a Roma encampment, and who have no idea what life is a... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, this debate has again highlighted the serious contradictions that the European Union contends with. It wants to be the greatest power in the world and puts itself forward as the great defender of human rights, but some governments, like the French, carry out hateful actions that smack of state-sponsored ... | null |
Romana Jordan Cizelj | MEP | PPE | en | sl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr Van Rompuy, I would like to remind you that we have two important international environmental conferences coming up soon: one will be taking place in October, in Japan, and will be devoted to biodiversity, and the other one on climate change will take place at the end of this year. Both conferences will be held und... | null |
Maroš Šefčovič | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, you have been very generous in allocating me the time. I shall try to be very brief and just react to the four major topics that have been discussed here this morning. First, I think we can clearly see that there is strong support for the new strategic approach towards our key partners, that we need to ma... | null |
Herman Van Rompuy | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, thank you to all the speakers in the debate. I know that it is a difficult task to respond, but I know that it is also a very hard task to synthesise, in one minute, the points of view that we want to develop. I will therefore not be able to reply to all of the remarks. I would like to make... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | President Van Rompuy, thank you very much for your report from the European Council and for the discussions with us. We look forward to your next important discussions with the European Parliament. The next European Council will be in October, so there will not be a big break between now and then. | null |
João Ferreira | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | At a time when the repercussions of the crisis of capitalism in the European Union are lowering living standards for millions of Europeans and causing a worrying deterioration in the economic and social situation in various Member States, the Council has decided to skirt these issues and reassert the old political gui... | null |
Kinga Göncz | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The events we have witnessed in the past few weeks prove that our demands, which we have voiced for some time now, are legitimate. Europe is in need of a comprehensive strategy to facilitate the social integration of the Roma. The expulsion of Roma from France immediately brought into focus the problems of the largest... | null |
Sandra Kalniete | MEP | PPE | en | lv | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the inclusion of the Eastern partnership in the conclusions of the European Council as one of the common foreign policy strategic directions. I support the objective of the European economic policy governance initiative to reinforce the functioning of the Stability and Growth Pact and to increase monitoring ... | null |
Tunne Kelam | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | As President Van Rompuy said, the EU governments knew for a long time about their financial problems but failed to react. We need a new financial supervision architecture for Europe. Reaching consensus on the macro-economic surveillance framework is a crucial step in the long-term prevention of future crises. However, ... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The problems relating to the Roma’s situation in one of the European Union’s Member States have taken up a great deal of time intended for debates in the European Council. Without trying to play down the gravity of these problems, I consider that this approach to issues based on cyclical crises or situations is superf... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | A crisis such as the one we are currently experiencing must never happen again. Europe’s new economic governance, however, must take into account not only the level of government debt, but also its sustainability in the medium to long term. Private debt and the sustainability of social security systems are just as imp... | null |
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | 2010 is the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. There are currently 84 million European citizens, 16% of the EU’s population, who are exposed to the risk of poverty. Against the background of the economic and financial crisis, the main concern that European citizens have is about losing their job... | null |
Traian Ungureanu | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Council’s sometimes heated debate on the Roma crisis in France was a step in the right direction. It stressed the need for a pan-European approach in dealing with the Roma problem. It also proved that the pervasive clichés of the left will only serve to leave unsolved or to even aggravate this issue. Three... | null |
Angelika Werthmann | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting (16 September 2010) (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, the last Council meeting left a lot of specific measures undecided. We need, at long last, to strengthen the economic and monetary union and, in so doing, learn the necessary lessons from the economic crisis – in other words, we need to strictly implement the Stability Pact and precisely define the fina... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the financial supervision package. | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, just an enquiry. I thought we were going to have a catch-the-eye segment in this debate. Is that the case? | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We will use the catch-the-eye procedure for the statement on the financial supervision package. I must, however, be very clear: I will be very strict regarding speaking times since we are running considerably late and we have a long voting time. Therefore, when someone’s time is up I must cut them off, and as for the c... | null |
Didier Reynders | EU Council President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I appear before you again to discuss financial supervision once more, as we have had the opportunity to talk about it following the last Ecofin meeting, while the legislative package on supervision is now being submitted to Parliament’s vote. It is ... | null |
Michel Barnier | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement on the financial supervision package which you will be voting on in a few moments, almost a year to the day since the Commission adopted these proposals, is, I think I can say, something quite historic in terms of the evolution of financial regulation in Europe. Sin... | null |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today is a good day for Europe. In December, we had a poor agreement and now, thanks to the cooperation between Parliament, the Presidency-in-Office of the Council and the Commission, we have a good agreement. It is a good agreement that is going to establish genuinely European authorities that are st... | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to thank the Commissioner and Mr Reynders. I would also like to thank David Wright very much for his activity, as well as my colleagues around the room. We have been quite successful. However, you are either captured by the moment or you capture it. A financial crisis has given life to new... | null |
William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to ask Mr Skinner on what basis he assumes that the judgment and decisions of new European institutions are going to be better than the decisions taken by regulatory institutions at the national level? | null |
Peter Skinner | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, if the Earl of Dartmouth had listened to my speech, then he would have heard me say that I consider this has to be done in coordination with national authorities, not against their interests – and only done when the legislation that we put forward for such purpose is fit and has passed through the demo... | null |
Sharon Bowles | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we have made it. The supervisory architecture train has left the station and we are expecting great things from the common rule book. However, our financial legislation is still like a Swiss cheese with holes and carve-outs – places a single rule book will never reach. That is a shame that we will all ... | null |
Sven Giegold | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today is indeed a day on which another stone has been laid in the House of Europe. It is a good day, and it proves false all of the claims that, following the financial crisis, nothing would happen. It also proves wrong all those who believe that a new phase of renationalisation is now starting. Inste... | null |
Kay Swinburne | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the legacy of this financial crisis has been a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the financial services sector and our public finances. The banks, the financial markets, governments and corporations are feeling this uncertainty daily, and in order for our economies to show signs of recovery, we need to... | null |
Jürgen Klute | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank my fellow Members who have participated in rather tough and lengthy negotiations here. It is a tremendous achievement by the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs to have managed to do what they have done. They achieved the best result that it was possible to negotiate... | null |
Godfrey Bloom | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, when last I met the Commissioner, I expressed grave concern that regulation of the City of London was going to move to Brussels. He seemed surprised that I was so concerned, but since he has taken office, he might have come to understand that a significant portion of the United Kingdom’s GDP actually c... | null |
Francisco Sosa Wagner | MEP | NI | en | es | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to congratulate those who have worked on this financial package, especially the staff and Members of this House. It took a financial crisis of huge proportions for Europe to wake up. However, an opportunity has been lost, in part, to strengthen the joint institutions of Europe, because, o... | null |
Jean-Paul Gauzès | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Reynders, Commissioner, I would, of course, like to add to all the congratulations offered and I would like to underline the work done and the excellent collaboration within this Parliament and also to remind you that without the will of Parliament, this supervision would certainly not have had the... | null |
Antolín Sánchez Presedo | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner Barnier, Mr Reynders, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the compromise reached in order to adopt the financial supervision package at first reading and with a broad consensus. European supervision was a long-held aspiration in European integration and an essential instrument for moving forw... | null |
Sylvie Goulard | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Commissioner, Minister, many things have been said. The agreement is concluded and it is satisfactory. Thank you everyone. I wanted to learn from this exercise for the future. The ordinary legislative procedure cannot consist – as was the case with the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in December – in c... | null |
Markus Ferber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Reynders, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that today is a good day, not only for the European institutions, but also for the people of Europe, because we have succeeded, two years after the collapse of the Lehman bank, in creating a structure that, although not eliminating all of the pr... | null |
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the President of the European Central Bank will automatically become the President of the European Systemic Risk Board for the next five years. This is not a minor issue. It visualises that the ECB is really implicated in the financial supervision of the European financial markets and institutions. It ... | null |
Astrid Lulling | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to add my voice to the congratulations on the compromise obtained by the European Parliament as regards financial supervision. It is a very satisfactory result, not because this House stood up to representatives of the States. This compromise is really good because it is meaningful. We ha... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are convinced that in the global market, no financial player, product or region may escape regulation and appropriate controls. The recent crises have demonstrated the need to take decisions in 48 hours, and to have common rules. Banks deemed ‘too big to fail’ must be supervis... | null |
George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I welcome the shift from fragmented European economic supervision, dictated by decisions made at national level, to a uniform macro-prudential supervision system, which will enable the EU to speak with one voice. The European Union will be able to plan its macro-economic interventions carefully and will have available... | null |
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we need more European solutions, fewer safeguard clauses and less national egoism. That is why it is particularly important that these efforts do not stop here. We must return to this matter. Crossborder banking, which now accounts for more than 70% of all activities, needs supervision. It requires a... | null |
Andrew Henry William Brons | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ordinary people see crises as disasters; the European Union sees crises as opportunities for gathering power to itself, always at the expense of the power of national governments. Member States will lose their sovereignty over their own financial systems. Whilst it is true that the crisis in the United... | null |
Burkhard Balz | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in my opinion, the compromise negotiated today represents a milestone in the continuing development of Europe-wide financial supervision. This joint success was made possible in particular by the constructive way the negotiations were conducted by the Council Presidency and by the cooperation of the M... | null |
Michel Barnier | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, at the end of this debate, I would like to thank each of the rapporteurs, group representatives and MEPs who spoke, almost unanimously, in favour of supporting this compromise and this agreement. I would like to confirm that these new European authorities and the European Systemic Risk Board will not ... | null |
Didier Reynders | EU Council President | N/A | en | fr | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, honourable Members, I would, in turn, like to thank all of the speakers and the very large majority of you who have supported the texts put to your vote. Furthermore, I am very pleased to see the interest that many MEPs have shown in this subject and in financial supervision. First and foremost, I wou... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
John Bufton | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Brussels are now totally in control of banks, stock markets and insurance companies, yet what was supposed to be supervisory has escalated into powers that stretch much further than the advisory nature of current systems, leaving national bodies without power or purpose. If Brussels were viewed as over regulating banks... | null |
Giovanni Collino | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | We cannot allow European citizens to pay the price for the failure of a banking system which, until now, has done anything but safeguard their rights. We also cannot allow our economic system to buckle under the weight of reckless access to credit. My colleagues from the Committee on Budgets and I have ensured that th... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | It is only some two years after the onset of the severe financial crisis that the Council and Parliament have reached agreement on a package of what they call ‘financial supervision’ measures, but which, in fact, have been pared down to a minimal degree of intervention in this sector. Moreover, they have done so witho... | null |
Iliana Ivanova | MEP | PPE | en | bg | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Today’s debate on financial supervision indicated that most of us have the will and determination for serious reforms in the area of economic governance for the benefit of Europe. The most effective method against crises of any kind is prevention. Today’s approval of the reports on the independent European supervisory... | null |
Justas Vincas Paleckis | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The European Parliament has always talked about the need for a single voice for Europe on the international stage. The uniquely European financial supervision package is one of the steps in this direction. With the package in place, Europe of the 27 would finally be able to work more coherently and with more solidarity... | null |
Theodor Dumitru Stolojan | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I congratulate the European Commission, the Council and European Parliament for adopting the regulations on the supervision of financial institutions and markets. European citizens needed to know that in future, those types of financial speculation where speculators consider it normal to claim for themselves the profi... | null |
Nuno Teixeira | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The weaknesses of financial regulatory and supervisory bodies around the world gave rise, to some extent, to the difficulties that we have been experiencing in the European Union and the euro area. The need to activate plans to bail out the economy and families was a decisive factor in the marked increase in governmen... | null |
Marianne Thyssen | MEP | PPE | en | nl | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this historic agreement was only possible thanks to the excellent work of the Belgian Presidency, which supported Parliament’s approach and scored a success where some other Presidencies had failed. True to the key elements of the Larosière report, the European Parliament has secured sufficient clout ... | null |
Winkler, Iuliu | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The decision on the financial supervision package constitutes a truly crucial response, proof that the EU has understood at least some of the lessons of the crisis. The creation of the supervisory authorities is a major step towards European integration and the furthering of the single market. Now, the implementation o... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-09-22T00:00:00 | 2010 | Financial supervision package (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I can see among us a very young person, just a few days old: little Vittoria, Mrs Ronzulli’s daughter. I would like to extend my best wishes to both Mrs Ronzulli and her daughter on behalf, I believe, of all Members of this Parliament. | null |
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